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Ironwood vs TPU v6e: specs and rental prices
Google Cloud TPU Ironwood (TPU7x) against Google Cloud TPU v6e (Trillium): 192 GiB against 32 GB of memory, lowest listed on-demand price $12.00 against $2.70 per chip-hour. Specs from Google, prices as of Oct 29, 2026.
In short
- Memory type is HBM on the Ironwood and HBM on the TPU v6e.
- The Ironwood lists 7,380 GB/s of memory bandwidth against 1,638 GB/s for the TPU v6e: 4.51× higher.
- Not every figure can be compared: at least one vendor page does not publish: FP8 tensor throughput; TF32 tensor throughput; FP64 throughput; Maximum power.
- The lowest listed on-demand price is $2.70 per chip-hour for the TPU v6e (Google Cloud) and $12.00 per chip-hour for the Ironwood (Google Cloud).
This summary is generated from the tables below. Prices were last checked Oct 29, 2026. A listing not re-checked for 7 days is greyed and left out of every lowest-price figure; after 14 days it is removed from the page.
Specifications side by side
| Specification | Ironwood (TPU7x) | TPU v6e (Trillium) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPU memory | 192 GiB | 32 GB | — |
| Memory type | HBM | HBM | Same |
| Memory bandwidth | 7,380 GB/s | 1,638 GB/s | Ironwood 4.51× higher |
| FP8 tensor throughput | 4,614 TFLOPS (basis not stated) | Not published | — |
| FP16 / BF16 tensor throughput | 2,307 TFLOPS (basis not stated) | 918 TFLOPS (basis not stated) | Not compared: the vendors state the figures on different bases |
| GPU-to-GPU interconnect | 1,200 GB/s | 800 GB/s | Ironwood 1.5× higher |
Compared versions: Ironwood (TPU7x) and TPU v6e (Trillium). The figure in the stronger cell is shaded; power is shown without a winner. Two throughput figures are compared only when both vendors state them on the same basis (both with sparsity, or both dense), and “derived” means a total the vendor publishes divided by the GPU count it publishes. Full tables with sources: Ironwood specifications · TPU v6e specifications.
Rental prices
| Rental price | Ironwood | TPU v6e | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowest listed on-demand price | $12.00 per chip-hour · Google Cloud · checked Oct 29, 2026 | $2.70 per chip-hour · Google Cloud · checked Oct 29, 2026 | Ironwood 4.44× higher |
| Lowest listed spot price | No fresh listing | No fresh listing | — |
| Price per GB of memory | Not available | $0.084 per GB of GPU memory per hour | — |
| Fresh listings | 4 from 1 providers | 6 from 1 providers | — |
Prices cover every version and instance size the providers list, so they are not tied to the versions compared above; the price per GB of memory divides the lowest fresh on-demand price by the memory of the compared version. Listed prices are not like for like across providers. See every listing: Ironwood prices · TPU v6e prices.
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